Oded Schramm
Oded Schramm | |
|---|---|
| Born | December 10, 1961 Jerusalem, Israel |
| Died | September 1, 2008 Washington State, USA |
| Citizenship | Israeli |
| Awards | Salem Prize (2001) Clay Research Award (2002) Loève Prize (2003) Henri Poincaré Prize (2003) SIAM George Pólya Prize (2006) Ostrowski Prize (2007) |
| Scientific career | |
| Doctoral advisor | William Thurston |
Oded Schramm (December 10, 1961 in Jerusalem, Israel – September 1, 2008, Washington State, USA) (Hebrew: עודד שרם) was an Israeli mathematician working at the intersection of conformal field theory and probability theory.[1][2] A constant theme in his research was the exploration of relations between discrete models and their continuous scaling limits, which for a number of models turn out to be conformally invariant. Schramm's most significant contribution is the invention of Schramm-Loewner evolution, a tool which has paved the way for rigorous proofs of conjectured scaling limit relations[3][4] on models from statistical mechanics such as self-avoiding random walk and percolation. This technique has had a profound impact on the field. It has been recognized by many awards to Schramm and others, including a Fields Medal to Wendelin Werner, who with Gregory Lawler was one of Schramm's principal collaborators.
Schramm received his Ph.D. from Princeton in 1990 under the supervision of William Thurston. He worked for two years at the University of California, San Diego, and then had a permanent position at the Weizmann Institute from 1992 to 1999. In 1999 he moved to the Theory Group at Microsoft Research in Redmond, Washington, where he remained until his death. His awards include the 2001 Salem Prize[5], the 2002 Clay Research Award[6], the 2003 Loève Prize, the 2003 Henri Poincaré Prize[7], the 2006 SIAM George Pólya Prize,[8] with Gregory Lawler and Wendelin Werner, and the 2007 Ostrowski Prize. In 2008 he was elected as a foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.[9]
On September 1, 2008, Schramm fell to his death while solo climbing Guye Peak, north of Snoqualmie Pass in Washington State.[10][11]
Selected publications
- Schramm, Oded (2000), "Scaling limits of loop-erased random walks and uniform spanning trees", Israel Journal of Mathematics, 118: 221–288, ISSN 0021-2172, MR1776084. Schramm's paper introducing Schramm-Loewner evolution.
References
- ^ Clay Research Award citation: Oded Schramm
- ^ Lawler, Gregory F. (2005), Conformally Invariant Processes in the Plane, Mathematical Surveys and Monographs, vol. 114, American Mathematical Society, ISBN 0-8218-3677-3
{{citation}}: Unknown parameter|Authorlink=ignored (|authorlink=suggested) (help) - ^ Cardy, John (1992), "Critical percolation in finite geometries", J. Phys. A: Math. Gen., 25: L201–L206
- ^ Cardy, John (2002), "Crossing formulae for critical percolation in an annulus", J. Phys. A: Math. Gen., 35: L565–L572
- ^ Schramm and Smirnov Awarded 2001 Salem Prize. Notices of the American Mathematical Society, vol. 48 (2001), no. 8, p. 831
- ^ Clay Research Award citation: Oded Schramm. Clay Mathematics Institute. Accessed September 4, 2008
- ^ The Henri Poincaré Prize. International Association of Mathematical Physics. Accessed September 4, 2008.
- ^ Gregory F. Lawler, Oded Schramm and Wendelin Werner receive George Polya Prize in Boston. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, July 20, 2006. Accessed September 4, 2008.
- ^ Microsoft Research: Awards
- ^ Gutierrez, Scott (September 3, 2008), "Rescuers recover hiker's body near Cascades' Guye Peak", Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
- ^ "Accomplished Microsoft mathematician died in hiking accident", Seattle Times, September 4, 2008.
External links
- Tutorial: SLE, video of MSRI lecture given jointly by Schramm, Lawler and Werner in the special session at the Lawrence Hall of Science, University of California, Berkeley in May 2001.
- Conformally Invariant Scaling Limits and SLE, MSRI presentation by Oded Schramm, May 2001.
- Terence Tao, "Oded Schramm".
- Publication list
- Oded Schramm at the Mathematics Genealogy Project